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Chinese Physics, 2002, Vol. 11(4): 379-382    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/11/4/312
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Investigation the positive moments on the $M$$-$$T$ curve of YBCO films measured by using zero-field cooling

Guo Shu-Quan (郭树权)abc, Wang Feng-Lin (王凤林)a,   Zhou Yue-Liang (周岳亮)b, Zhao Bai-Ru (赵柏儒)b, Gao Ju (高炬)c
a Applied Superconductivity Research Center, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; b  National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy Science, Beijing 100080, China; c Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract  The superconducting transition of a YBCO film was measured by a MPMS-5 superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer, using a zero-field cooling process. The experimental results have shown that there are positive magnetic moment and positive peak on the $M$$-$$T$ curve. We have proven that these anomalous behaviours are due to measurement error, but not phase transition. We have proposed a simple formula to explain and to calculate quantitatively these anomalous behaviours. It was found that, provided dH>0.59Hp (dH is the inhomogeneous field of the remnant field, Hp is the fully penetrated field of the measured sample), the experimental results will be positive, not negative. If dH≥2Hp, the experimental results will be symmetrical to their real negative values. From the $M$$-$$T$ curve, which has positive moment and positive peak below Tc (superconducting transition temperature), we found a new possible method to obtain Hp of the measured sample.
Keywords:  SQUID magnetometer      remnant field      superconducting $M$$-$$T$ curve      flux pinning      positive moment      superconducting paramagnetic Meissner effect  
Received:  20 April 2001      Revised:  13 December 2001      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  74.78.-w (Superconducting films and low-dimensional structures)  
  85.25.Dq (Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs))  
  74.20.Mn (Nonconventional mechanisms)  
  74.25.Qt  
  74.25.Ha (Magnetic properties including vortex structures and related phenomena)  
Fund: Project supported by the National High Technology Development Programme of China (Grant No 863-CD090000).

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Guo Shu-Quan (郭树权), Wang Feng-Lin (王凤林), Zhou Yue-Liang (周岳亮), Zhao Bai-Ru (赵柏儒), Gao Ju (高炬) Investigation the positive moments on the $M$$-$$T$ curve of YBCO films measured by using zero-field cooling 2002 Chinese Physics 11 379

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